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Flickr has lengthy had methods to let others use and tweak your photographs, however if you wish to hand over your copyright altogether? Now you can do exactly that. Within the wake of Elon Musk releasing SpaceX’s pictures to public area, Flickr has added choices for public area and Artistic Commons zero (“no rights reserved”) licenses. Select them and others can do no matter they need together with your photographs, freed from cost and even credit score. In the event you see your images as extra of a service for the larger good than a intently guarded treasure, you’ll be able to loosen the restrictions as we speak.

GoPro does not make sq., dice-like cameras, but when it did, the image (after the break) might be what they’d seem like. The picture comes from a patent granted to GoPro immediately. The safety covers a “Digital camera housing for a sq.-profile digital camera,” quite than a digital camera itself (makers of sq. cameras, your time to examine is now). Sifting via the claims, the patent mentions how the sq. housing would permit a digital camera to be mounted in quite a few orientations (thanks, geometry!) no matter the way you mount it. There are equivalent openings on three of the edges additionally, to offer entry to ports (like you’ll be able to with the present “Body” mount) in any orientation.

Sid Meier scares the crap out of me. I am deeply accustomed to the famed technique recreation creator’s resume — from the historical past-spanning Civilization collection to the excessive seas simulations in Sid Meier’s Pirates! — however I’ve solely ever performed one among his video games. The rationale I by no means picked one other up after making an attempt Civilization III is that when I began enjoying I did not cease for about 36 hours. The person makes a deeply cerebral recreation but in addition a deeply addictive one. Let it by no means be stated that I will not attempt issues twice, although! In the present day on JXE Streams, I am going to give into the attract of deep area exploration and play Sid Meier’s Starships.

Nope, it isn’t the new MacBook. That assessment might want to wait till subsequent month. What we have now right here is the thirteen-inch MacBook Professional with Retina show. For all intents and functions, it is the identical one we final examined in late 2013, apart from one necessary factor: It swaps out the previous trackpad in favor of a strain-delicate “Drive Contact” pad that responds in a different way relying on how arduous you bear down on it. (A tough-press on the skip button in QuickTime, as an example, will allow you to quick-ahead at warp velocity.) As well as, the brand new MBP brings all of the spec upgrades you’d anticipate in a system refresh, together with quicker SSDs, recent graphics and Intel’s newest Core processors. At $1,299-plus, it is priced the identical as earlier than, and because the design and Retina show have not modified, you are more likely to take pleasure in it as a lot as you probably did the final-gen mannequin. I can not promise you will love the brand new touchpad, although.

Constitution misplaced out on its probability to snatch Time Warner Cable earlier than Comcast made its transfer, so it is settling for the subsequent neatest thing. The corporate simply unveiled plans to purchase Brilliant Home Networks, a cable supplier that is principally massive in Florida, for about $10.four billion. Reportedly, the transfer is about getting “strategic flexibility” and solidifying Constitution’s place because the second-largest cable firm within the US. In different phrases, it needs to each enhance its clout in relation to Comcast (even when the 2 do not have competing networks) and streamline its prices. That final half is necessary in an period the place providers like Netflix are diminishing the significance of typical TV. If Constitution cannot have TWC, it could actually a minimum of put together for a future the place it could’t depend upon costly programming bundles to show a revenue.

Techie tradition-vultures aren’t more likely to encounter Vine add fails anymore at Seattle’s residence to arts, tradition and the Area Needle because of Microsoft. The town’s largest patron has put in a brand new WiFi service on the Seattle Middle that makes use of new know-how to blow away the earlier system’s velocity and capability. The set up is a pilot program for Microsoft Analysis’s white area tech that harnesses lengthy-vary, wall-penetrating TV alerts. Together with quadruple the entry factors, the tech provides the Seattle Middle public WiFi speeds as much as 5,000 occasions quicker, letting you Skype, Vine and Meerkat to your coronary heart’s content material.

Women and gents, prepare for some new Chromebooks. Yep, Google has simply introduced 4 new Chrome OS laptops, all of which lean towards the price range-pleasant finish of the spectrum. They’re the ASUS Chromebook Flip, the ASUS Chromebook C201, the Hisense Chromebook and the Haier Chromebook eleven (This additionally is available in an academic model dubbed the 11e). Although it is the priciest mannequin at $249, probably the most notable one by far is ASUS’ Chromebook Flip. Not solely is it the slimmest of the bunch with a thickness of solely 15mm, it has a ten.1-inch touchscreen IPS show that may be flipped (therefore the identify) 360 levels round.

Google has unveiled an entire new sort of Chrome system, and it is one that may slot in your pocket. It is referred to as the Chromebit, and it is primarily a Chromebook crammed in a dongle. This tiny little package deal incorporates a Rockchip 3288 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of eMMC reminiscence, a USB 2.zero port, WiFi 802.eleven ac help, Bluetooth four.zero, a Sensible Prepared controller and an ARM Mali 760 quad-core GPU. Identical to Intel’s Compute Stick, all it’s a must to do to get the Chromebit working is to connect it to any show with a HDMI port, and voila, you’ve got turned it into a pc. In contrast to the Intel stick although, the Chromebit’s HDMI finish truly swivels round in order that the dongle does not stick out in an ugly method behind a monitor or TV. As for battery life, properly, Google says it does not actually know that simply but because the product continues to be in testing. Google guarantees that the Chromebit — the primary is made by ASUS — will retail for lower than $one hundred. It’s going to be obtainable in both silver, blue or orange and shall be out later this summer time.

Whenever you’re doing an train upon your self, your physique generates lactic acid, the degrees of that are thought-about to be probably the most correct method to measure your efficiency throughout a exercise. Sadly, you’ll be able to solely check lactate ranges with a blood check and a few heavy obligation gear, at the least, that was the case till now. Kickstarter success BSXinsight is now starting to ship its wearable sensor that is designed to offer the identical info simply by scanning your blood vessels.

Photographer Calder Wilson added an explosive new technique to his lengthy publicity “mild work” earlier this yr when he was struck by an excellent notion: Strap some leftover New Yr’s fireworks to the again of a UAV, mild them up after which raise off. The outcomes converse for themselves. When he is not capturing these glowing drones, you will discover Wilson capturing lovely pictures of a few of the most important live shows on the planet.